HARRISON, J., 2006. A little less hard economics, a little more social action please? The policy rhetoric and political realities of an English region. Regional Studies Association Annual Conference, Global Regions, London, 24th November 2006

Abstract:

In response to the work of authors such as Michael Porter, the concept of
regional competitiveness has become a ‘hegemonic discourse’, whereby
programmes of decentralisation to subnational tiers of governance have been
driven by this prerogative of embracing this hegemony of regional
competitiveness. In deference to this orthodoxy, Blair’s programme of devolution
and constitutional change (in the United Kingdom) was provisionally stimulated
by the legitimation of politics through the settlements afforded to both Scotland
and Wales.

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